GMC Safe(r) Zone Map

Modified from a MapBox template, this map shows the % of Safe(r) Zone Certified individuals in each room. I am reposting this map now, as it has seen fairly significant updates since the first verion, which featured only Bogue and parts of North. It took quite a bit of work, but this is the first map I've made using a significant amount of HTML and some JavaScript, hosted on DropBox. The maps themselves are still hosted on MapBox. A quick summary of the process is available below...



The following buildings are (as of 6/18/2013) complete and up-to-date: Lyman and North. Bogue is up-to-date, but some of the background data is not complete. Withey and Cree are still being put together. Other buildings with student rooms and/or staff/faculty offices are on their way.

• Obtained blueprints for each building and floor from Green Mountain College's facilities department.
• Scanned these documents using the large-format scanner over at Castleton State College.
• Isolated each floor from these documents, using GIMP, an open-source image manipulation program.
• Georeferenced each isolated floor to Google Maps in QGIS(Satellite and Street layers).
• Vectorized each georeferenced layer in QGIS.
• Added housing and training data.
• Groundproofed the resulting vector layers for accuracy
• Stylized these layers using TileMill.
• Uploaded the stylized layers to MapBox.
• Presented this information on my Blogger account, using the MapBox template, "DC's Changing Landscape."

Many thanks to...

Professor John Van Hoesen, of GMC - for being so enthusiastic about my project and tolerating my endless stream of questions with answers both challenging and obvious.

Jorie Jarvis, formerly of GMC - for taking the initiative to get Safe(r) Zone rolling!

All the Safe(r) Zone participants - for supporting the LGBT and Queer community!

Glenn LaPlante, of GMC - for tolerating yet another student project and allowing me access to facilities' documents.

Timothy Grover, of CSC - for your help in working and accessing the large-format scanner.

Maryann 'Delaware' Arterbridge, of GMC - for accompanying me to a few tiresome map-scanning sessions and (I think) lending me your car.

All of my friends and family - for bearing with me as I excitedly show you version after version of the same map and try in vain to explain processes you don't really even want to try to comprehend.

Everyone who put work into GIMP, QGIS, TileMill, and MapBox - these products are fantastic and their potential nearly limitless.

Biomass Sourcing at Green Mountain College

Gagnon Lumber supplies somewhere between 60-80% of Green Mountain College's biomass from Vermont lands enrolled in the state's Use Value Appraisal Program. All the chipwood his company delivers to the college is hardwood bole chips, primarily from Rutland County. However, Ken's company also supplies Middlebury College and a few high schools. Due to this, he cannot determine which specific woodlots the wood delivered to GMC is coming from, though he does have records of which UVA lots wood is harvested from. This map shows some of those lots.

"...systems strongly resist changes in their information flows, especially in their rules and goals. It is not surprising that those who benefit from the current system actively oppose such revision. Entrenched political, economic, and religious cliques can constrain almost entirely the attempts of an individual or small group to operate by different rules or to attain goals different from those sanctioned by the system. Innovators can be ignored, marginalized, ridiculed, denied promotions or resources or public voices. They can be literally or figuratively snuffed out."

Meadows, Donella, Jørgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows. "Tools for the Transition," in The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift, eds. Raymond De Young and Thomas Princen(Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012): 313.

Green Mountain College Safe(r) Zone Map

Modified from a MapBox template, this map shows the % of Safe(r) Zone Certified individuals in each room. It took quite a bit of work, but this is the first map I've made using a significant amount of HTML and some JavaScript, hosted on DropBox. The maps themselves are still hosted on MapBox.

Earthquakes - Exam 2

Created using USGS .csv data loaded into TileMill. Incorporated a lot of customization based on attributes and zoom level. Toyed with a premade legend a bit. I played around with Google Charts a bit trying to see if I could incorporate one into this map, but couldn't figure that out quickly enough. I'll try again later.

The map itself shows earthquakes within the past 30 days (with data from December 4th, 2012). The larger and redder a point is, the greater the magnitude of that earthquake. Mousover shows location and magnitude. In order to upload the map faster I cut off one layer of zoom level.

Meant to fulfill the requirements for Exam 2.